Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-04-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

p"Scu 10 secret college, societies.
UNDER the new law there are to be no
more public haugings in Missouri.
THERE are ten thousand women in Gin
cinnsti who earn their own living.
THERE are 10000 unmarried men IN
Paris against SS0,Oo0 married men.
WALES tthe country has positively re,
fused TO join in the Victoria jubilee.
NO city in the United States has relative
" so large foreign population as Chi
cago.
rHF entire total of the Hebrew race on
| 6 6,3Oo, 900. ~
THOSE who formerly held free passes are
now spoken OF in railroad circles as ex.
dead heads
FIRST the President married. then Sec.
retary Lamar and now il is said to be Sec
retary Bayard.
HERR KRUPP is going TO start first-class
e aalLy l newspaper at Essen for the use OF his
10000 worSmen.
DISEASE embracing many SYMPTOMS Of
pneumonia and plurisy has become preva
lent in New Jersey.
SEvESTEES thousand dollars Is what Il
cost the city of New York to send three
Doodle aldermen 10 Sing Sing.
Four new postoffices have Just been es
tablished with the euphonious names of
riggs, Dump, Pulse and Malaria
GENERAL ScHENcK is living quietly in
Washington with his daughters, who arc
intelligent and entertaining ladies.
RoBERT I. LINCOLN offers the Springfield
homestead TO the State OF Illinois on con-
dition that II be preserved with care
The New Jersey Senate has passed bill
providing Tor the free transportation OF
legislators on all railroads In the State.
GEORGE M. PULLMAN, the millionaire
sleeping-car knight, commenced his busi-
ness career in Chicago, as house-raiser.
The Congress of Churches and Christians
recently in session at Chicago, condemned
| free-masonry and all other secret soci-
cites.
DIR. HENRY d. CoGswELI, the San Fran
cisco millionaire, has given 81 900. 600 10
found a trade school for boys and girls in
that city.
FIVE hundred dollars was paid for a let
ter IN Philadelphia the other day 20 pre-
vent II from being read in ''fashionable'
divorce case.
The toilets OF 40 ladies who formed tho
cortege at recent carnival ball in Vienna
were valued at SS5J,OOO and the diamonds
at 81 10000.
feather unless entitled 10 IL, as they be-
lieve it will fly away from their heads il
worn unlawfully.
FIFTEEN cows huddled in Northern Pa
cific railroad cut TO keep from freezing to
death, and freight train came through
and killed all OF them.
M LACoMBE, AN ingenious Frenchman. has
succeeded in taking long-distance photo
graphs by fixing telescope in front OF tho
objective Of the camera.
PEACE between Germany and the Vati-
can seems 10 be assured. Pope Leo has
expressed his satisfaction with the atti-
tude OF Prince Bismarck.
The New York Herald Is urging that the
Territory Of Alaska be made penal colony
TO which all the States Of the Union can
send their contributions
a WORK by Meissonier, 1Oj% by 49,. illus
trating horse soldier on outpost duty. -
the costliest water color in the world, be-
ing valued at over $500.
Mrs FEEDERfcA EcHARTE, OF East Thir-
ty-second street, New York, imagines her
self the wife Of the Creator, and will not
be convinced 70 the contrary.
THERE Is a rich man in the Black Hills,
says the Bismarck Times, who dates the
beginning OF his fortune from the day
THE will Of a married woman lust pro.
bated in Kingston, n. y, is peculiar in
| that il gives all her property 10 her hus-
band for life, or as long as nc "remains
unmarried"
ENoUeH crimes arc being laid at the door
/ OF Mr.. Kissane alias Titus alias Rogers 20
give rise to the suspicion that he is being
made "a scapegoat for the sins OF all the
other California "4Qersn
A MAN near Greeley, Col, had thirty
acres Of land which he could neither sell
nor mortgage, and in despair he went out
and struck a coal vein thirteen feet thick
and sold the land for $4,000.
| THE Washington CaDiiai says "the state
/ ment that the four Interstate Commerce
| Commissioners who came 70 Washington
last week travelled on free passes is libel
ous and, we hope, untrue"
THE crank who exploded a bomb in tho
Grand Opera-house at San Francisco has
explained that ho wanted 10 end his life
! while Patti was singing. 40 that he could
be her page in tho spirit land.
SHoBTfY after her marriage the Sultan
Of Turkey generously offered Mrs CIeve-
land the decoration OF the Order of tho
/ Caliphat but she declined 70, and the inci-
denthas just been made public.
NEw YORK proposes 10 spend g.. 900. 900
IN tho improvement Of its streets, 81 ,O9O.-
90 10 be spent each year until the work OF
furnishing tho city with entirely new paw
ing OF the best material Is finished
ONK Of the most eccentric rich men in
New York city is the venerable Benjamin
| Richardson. lie Is said 10 be worth g. CO.,
O0O or more, but lives IN a small tumble
down house In Harlem. He holds mort
gage for 10000 against one Of the most
| prominent Insurance companies in tho
/ city. Mr. Richardson owns the historic
| Washington coach, which he lets out when.
ever there Is q demand for this revolution
| airy relic.
OLD JoHN BROwy's diary was taken from
bin 40 Harper's Ferry with other pspsrs,
and IS now in The possession of tho CIV
/ crnment To the diary is list Of the rev-
olutionists colleagues and opposite Fred
Douglass name IS the comment "unreli-
able"
THREE months ago James Stuart, Of Con.
way. Mass. made an agreement with the
temperance people that IL his expected
heir should be a girl ho would vote against
| granting licenses He voted "no license"
. few days ago, aud his ballot decided
the action Of the town on the liquor ques-